Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott